Today is an exciting day for me as I’m embarking on the task of rebuilding our 5-year-old sysctr server that was built on 2012R2. As I begin this process, I wanted to document the steps I’m taking to bring up a new instance alongside the existing server. Rebuilding a server can be a daunting task, …
Printers are notorious for causing headaches and frustration, and this was certainly the case for me as I managed a single Windows server with 167 networked printers. It seemed like every so often, print jobs would get stuck and I would have to manually intervene by stopping the print spooler service, cleaning out the print …
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Typically I would of thought installing the “BitLocker Drive Encryption” via server manager would of been enough to manage the keys. Well found out my helpdesk staff couldn’t see the keys while using RSAT tools. Thought to myself great, this should be an easy fix. Just delegate view access! Wrong, turns out in addition to …
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I’ve been tasked with deploying bitlocker to our domain which consists of 800+ staff and over 5,500 students. So here I’ll document the process. Install Server Feature On your domain controller open the server manager and add roles and features. Under features install “BitLocker Drive Encryption” Just a note, you’ll need to reboot to complete …
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Today was one of those days, I migrated our old print server (2012 R2) to Server 2022 and it went way to smoothly for printers. Sure enough a day later we get calls the canon ID management won’t verify. Could not verify the Department ID and PIN specified in Department ID Mgmt. Printing will be …
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I’m needing to migrate from Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019. This is fairly straight forward with PowerShell. This guide assumes you have an existing 2012R2 server with DHCP role and a clean 2019 server fully patched. Before you begin document your current system such as current hostname / and IP Address. I’m going to …
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I couldn’t find an updated how to article on setting up NetXMS on a windows server so thought I would write one. If you weren’t aware NetXMS is a network and infrastructure monitoring and management system. It’s a lot like netdisco if you’ve ever used that. Requirements MySQL NetXMS Windows (x64) Server and Web interface …
I needed a way to find out if any of our staff employeeType was part of incorrect distribution lists. Example: Classified staff shouldn’t be part of any distribution lists that contains “Licensed”. Here is the output: If you wanted to export this to a csv just add on “| Export-Csv C:\” to the end so …
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Recently I’ve started leaving my security cameras live stream via Chrome (Unifi Protect) visible at all times on one of my monitors. It’s been great but the issue is my monitors won’t turn off at night. After some digging I cam across this nifty little command. Open up powershell (run it as admin) and run …
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I’ve noticed lately on my personal machine with a I need to upload a file, Google Chrome locks up for a few seconds. In the past this has always been instant. All my other browsers are fine. What the heck! After reinstalling Chrome, repairing it, incognito, removing all extensions the problem persisted. This is when …
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